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25 Most Recent Crime Short Stories

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A Badge of Dishonor & Betrayal by Jacob Smith, Sr.
This book is now available for sale on amazon.com and the author's email bleepert@aol.com..
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A Blue Lipped Hamburglar by Jerry Robards
I found early in my police career that the truth is stranger than anything I could drema up. This was a true case I worked...
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A Cask of Amontillado, Revisited by Anne Marie Jackson
A spinoff of the popular Edgar Allen Poe story, "A Cask of Amontillado", this story delves into the motivations behind the crime of passion. ..
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A Child Sits and Waits.... chapter 7 by Linda Murray
A little girl is so confused and needs help in the worsed way...
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A Child Sits and Waits...... Chapter Two by Linda Murray
Chapter Two..
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A Child Sits and Waits...... The Mother by Linda Murray
A Child Sits and Waits....and thinks! copyright(c) 2003..
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A Child Sits and Waits........ Chapter Three by Linda Murray
Some adult content has been removed. copyright(C) 2003..
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A Child Sits and Waits.......Prelude by Linda Murray
Prelude..
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A Child Sits and Waits......Chapter 4...The Teacher by Linda Murray
A teacher is one adult that the little girl could have gone to for help. This is her account of what happened when she tried. copyright(c) 2003..
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A Child Sits and Waits...Chapter 5/6 by Linda Murray
Chapters5/6 are too sexually graphic for Authors Den...
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A confession letter from a killer, exerpt from SURVIVING THE DEATH PENALTY by Diana Harrington
This is an exerpt from SURVIVING THE DEATH PENALTY ........... This is one of Donald Ray Wallace Jr.'s letters to me. This is one in a series of letters sent to me while Donald Ray Wallace Jr. was on death row. This letter of confession was written in 1992, ..
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A Friend In Need In IM Form (Natalie and Missy Sensitve Subject with S/T by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Missys Friend Natalies Faces one of the darkest moments in her life and Missy tries to be here for her.....
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A Friendship Built: A Conversation Between New Friends Part Four W/S.Tagert by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
A new friendship, and a dark secret revealed can Rebekka Rachel help?..
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A Good Woman by Alan Cook
John Webster doesn't think he's a stalker. He's just in love. But after he appears in court, strange things start to happen...
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A Helping Hand by L C Evans
Fiction. Dorothy decides to become a homemade widow...
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A Little Joy by Ofira Sephiroth
Flash Fiction: 194 Words..
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A Man Named Johnny Divine by Donald Yates
Johnny kept the boys in the hood in order, or did he? ..
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A Murder at the Mall by Beverly Mahone
When kids kill, who's really to blame?..
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A review ... by Norma Herrera
A review from Mr. Mike Farrell ..
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Ace by Carolyn Baxter
The Lower eastside in NY. the place where Bodega's and the Corner ‘’Cuchiefrito’’ Joint has Baptized many a generation with its Greasy Fried Culture, Turning a Blind eye to Death .Mopping up Blood from outside the storefront ,with not so much as a wimper or a moan. Always lit up like Christmas.Stea..
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Angel-Girl. (Part Twenty-Three) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
"It's like reliving the horrors of September 11, 2001, all over again, excepting on a much smaller scale..." Sage McDermott of Colorado is feeling a sense of anger and helplessness, as are a lot of Americans, in light of the tragedy in Texas at Fort Hood Army Base, where a gunman killed 13..
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Anh's Journals (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Anh reflects on the horrors of yesterday and other things...
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Read excerpt from At The Sparrow  Part 2&1 At The Sparrow Part 2&1 by Bruce Nickerson
At The Sparrow, is a series of stories on the lives and circumstances of the inhabitants in a crime zone in a small community, in California's Central Valley. All subjects in my stories are real and known to me personally, through an exhaustive undercover research project. Some are living and some ..
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Banana Boat People by Paul Mc Cann
A young girl abandoned by her tribe wins back her good name ...
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Barbarian of the Local Sort by Randall Barfield
(Talk about a hole where one's soul is supposed to be...)..
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Barbie Doll by Wendy Laing
A hard-boiled fiction style short story about a 'Barbie Doll' victim. Why was this woman killed?..
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Barn Noise Calling by Margo Mossburg
Avery heard something strange. The barn noises always stole the horse trainer's deepest sleep. Quietly she snuck away from Fred, her husband of 31 years, to check in the barn. “Funny,” she thought, “Sleepy Freddy didn’t grumble when I left the bed.“ After grabbing her b..
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Barren Fallows by Romantic Poetess Victoria L. McColley
A Dark Story Like Poetic Expression... Presentiments Recalled of Memories Past.....
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Bear Illegal by BJ Bourg
When a husband and wife go camping, will bears be the only danger they face?..
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Beaten by John Rymell
It's payback time for Vera's beatings...
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Beauty For Beasts by Muhammad Khan
a girl was raped by her own Father..
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Dead Cat Food by Garrett Peck
Dead Cat dead. Go to hell, but bounce back to earth. Gerard Houarner's deceased feline finds a new home with a nice old lady, but her grandson is an advertising executive who wants to use Dead Cat in a new campaign for Cat Cuisine cat food. This is a riff on Art Buchwalkd's novel Irving's Delight..
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Death Sends A Wire by Darryl Varner
I enjoy reading Sherlock Holmes stories. One day, frustrated to realize that I'd reached the end of Doyle's tales, I decided to try my hand at popping off one of my own. Once I started, I was hooked. This particular story concerns a black period, indeed, in the life of the world's first consultin..
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Bill's Journal: The Billings Family Murders: Unanswered Questions. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Bill is still trying to figure out why a couple who only wanted to give a better life to hurting children was found in their home, brutally slain. As many as eight people may have been connected to the crime. He wonders about the future of the sixteen children, what might happen to them. (Most of..
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Blind Date by Harlan Goldberg
A man spills his secrets on a blind date, but finds that his date is more than he expected...
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Boarding School sometimes... by: Linda Law by Linda Law
Another story in this childs life that begs to be told. charcoal by: Linda Law..
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Bonk's Bar, Chapter 1 by Daniel Putkowski
Tommy Bonk, college student and casual piano player, never wanted his old man's bar. He wanted an education, a high-paying career, and out of his lower-class neighborhood. And then his brother John, a sergeant in the Marine Corps, is killed. His father goes on a two week bender, leaving Tommy the o..
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Broken and Bruised (Sensitive Subject Matter) by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I am going to run away with Nessa one day, I am going to run away with her, and raise her like my own. I won't beat her the way my parents do...
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Bump the Bastard! by mike morell
Fatman Jeremy gets bumped off outside a restaurant. Turns out his wife had hired the hitman. Blackmailed by the hitman, she tries to kill him. The bomb job bungles and the truth comes out...
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Bush, Bin Laden and Taja by Muhammad Khan
A common man who did not know who Bush or Lodon were..
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By The Grace of God by Dave Harm
It is so easy to judge others. For me personally a lot of people sitting in jail could be me, if not for "the grace of God."..
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Can You Dig It? by Garrett Peck
A mystery fan is disturbed while reading the last chapter of his latest book by a neighbor wanting to borrow his shovel in the dead of night. It appears in the Cemetery Dance Publications anthology Shivers 2 edited by Richard Chizmar, set to debut at the Horrorfind Weekend, August 2003. This story..
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Case Suspended by Paul Mc Cann
An innocent victim of the justice system finds hope at the eleventh hour ...
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Read excerpt from Chapter 1 Chapter 1 by Tony Cheatham
/Chapter 1 June, 1935 James sat on the matted tan carpet arms wrapped around legs folded up to his chest. He was studying his father. Willie Thompson wouldn’t let his kids call him Pop or Daddy. He liked his name, didn’t take to anybody calling him William or Will. Wil..
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Children of the Yellow Star Part Two (Heartbreaking Photo) by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Our crime, not being the perfect symbol of what Hitler would have us to be. We were the enemies of a nation that was founded on pure hatred. The victims of a Man who thought he was some twisted version of the Messiah. A man who turned out to be no more than a coward, unable to face the consequenc..
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Chloes Story; Sticks and Stones, And Words That Hurt by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Truth is Chloe is blessed to be alive, but what a life she led before, her Mother, her Father the very people that were supposed to protect her nearly killed her...
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Cleaning Up the House by Tony Burton
People change. Sometimes it's for the better, but it seems like most of the time it goes in the opposite direction. Some people lose all their motivation and spirit when they lose their job—they are identified by what they do, not who they are. And usually someone else ends up taking up the slack..
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Comedy Cops by Paul Mc Cann
Desperate measures are needed to keep a lid on crime ...
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Confluence: Traitors & Villains by Nduka Onwuegbute
Crime and punishment in Nun. Fourteen year old Alabo witnesses his mother whipped to dying point.....
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Convicted by Mark Rockeymoore
“Somebody has to go to jail, tonight. Who is it going to be?”..
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